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Documentary Outline‘Supersize me’ is an expository documentary in which Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock directly speaks to the audience and sets out on a journey to answer the question what would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire mouth. He answers this question by doing just that and eating nothing but food from the Mc Donald's menu for 30 days and continue to eat 3 meals a day. he must eat everything on the menu at least once and cannot refuse to supersize his meal when asked. He travels across the country interviewing both experts and an equal number of regular people on fast food. The effects Morgan suffers from his diet both physically and emotionally will make most people think twice about eating fast food and the consequences of it.

Production• Morgan Freeman is shown eating nothing but mc Donald's

all day everyday for 30 days.• He makes a point of attending appointments with experts

on a regular basis to monitor his health and the changes that the food binge makes to his body.

• Morgan shows a huge change in his personality throughout the film. We see him go from what is considered an active and healthy man to a man who is constantly tired, depressed and lifeless.

• Every appointment he attends shows an increased risk on his medical health.

• Eventually he is advised by all specialists to not proceed with his food binge as it was having extremely harmful effects on his body.

Message‘Supersize me’ emphasizes the message of the dangers of fast food and their effects on our health. Throughout the movie, we witness the extreme changes that the fast food had not only on Morgan's physical health, but also on his psychological health too. After we see him consult a varietyOf experts we are shown the seriousness of Obesity and how it is responsible for an extortionate amount of life threatening illnesses.

Statistics• Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant • In 1972, Americans spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than $110

billion • McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of

Spain • You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a• Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac • In the U.S., they eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour • 60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese • One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop • diabetes in their lifetime • The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year • Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar

NarratorMorgan Spurlock is the narrator in his documentary ‘supersize me’. He uses the ‘voice of god’ form of narration. This allows us to trust what he says as he is the voice of authority. Not only does he do the voice he also appears on the screen making him a host.

StereotypesMorgan appeared to only show obese people eating inside mc Donald's. This automatically makes the audience assume that it is only obese people who eat in mc Donald's, as they are the only people really shown.

He also failed to show any positives ofMcDonalds for example they how they collect for Charity in store and how people enjoy the taste ofTheir food and how it is a treat for them.